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To: AdamSelene235
This is the price you pay for allowing the government to dominate and control your economic life.

That's propaganda. Domination must be defined even to be discussed --- something you do not bother to do and replace with nice-sounding, insendiary phrases.

Markets do not provide public goods, and we hire the government to provide them. By itself, it is not at all act of submission. Naturally, any contract grants privilages and imposes duties, so to partake of public goods you as individual do forgo certain freedoms.

Having common currency, including that which is "faith-based," in a public good.

Any libertarian statement such as yours is nonsense as long as it does not even bother to address provision of public goods.

58 posted on 03/18/2004 7:19:50 AM PST by TopQuark
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To: TopQuark
Markets do not provide public goods,

There is no such thing. Is a polio shot a public good to the one child in a million who dies from it? Is a highway a public good to the man who loses his farm for it?

and we hire the government to provide them.

Hiring refers to a voluntary process. You are referring to a non-voluntary process based on violence not collaborative activity.

Naturally, any contract grants privilages and imposes duties, so to partake of public goods you as individual do forgo certain freedoms.

Please provide evidence that I have signed such a contract.

Having common currency, including that which is "faith-based," in a public good

Not for young folks trying to purchase inflated housing. Or old folks being robbed of their benefits and savings via inflation. Remind me how falsifying the CPI is a public good?

76 posted on 03/18/2004 8:36:16 AM PST by AdamSelene235
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